This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":4157,"date":"2010-11-18T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T20:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2010-11-18T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T20:25:44","slug":"e-books-about-writing-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/e-books-about-writing-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"E-books about Writing and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"..\/..\/resources\/books\/ebooks\">HSLS Health Sciences E-Books<\/a> page is a subject listing of the many e-books available to our users.  One of our newer subject categories is \u201cWriting and Research.\u201d Currently, HSLS provides access to fourteen e-books in these areas. Included are two style guides, the <em>AMA manual of Style<\/em> and <em>Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide<\/em>, books that many writers find easier to use online than their print counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Two e-books on the practice of writing are <em>Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-plagiarism, and other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing<\/em> by Miguel Roig and <em>How to Write, Publish, &amp; Present in the Health Sciences: A Guide for Clinicians &amp; Laboratory Researchers<\/em> by Thomas A. Lang.<\/p>\n<p>E-books about clinical research and clinical trials include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em> Designing Clinical Research<\/em> by Stephen B. Hulley<\/li>\n<li><em>Dictionary for Clinical Trials<\/em> by Simon Day<\/li>\n<li><em>Essentials of Clinical Research<\/em> by Stephen P. Glasser<\/li>\n<li><em>Good Clinical Practice: Standard Operating Procedures for Clinical Researchers<\/em> by Josef Kolman, et al.<\/li>\n<li><em>Manager&#8217;s Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials<\/em> by Phillip I. Good<\/li>\n<li><em>Principles and Practice of Clinical Research<\/em> by John I. Gallin, et al.<\/li>\n<li><em>Quantitative Methods for Health Research<\/em> by Nigel Bruce, et al.<\/li>\n<li><em>Textbook of Clinical Trials<\/em> edited by David Machin, et al.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The e-books are on various platforms; some have a limited number of concurrent users, and for others HSLS has a site license. If you are turned away from using a book, try again; generally, the situation doesn\u2019t last long. All of our e-books can be accessed in numerous ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search for the title in the <a href=\"..\/..\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pitt Resources Quick Search box<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Search for the title in <a href=\"http:\/\/pittcat.hsls.pitt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">PITTCat for the Health Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Browse <a href=\"..\/..\/resources\/books\/ebooks\" target=\"_blank\">e-books by subject<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Search the full text of HSLS e-books in the <a href=\"..\/..\/\" target=\"_blank\">E-Book Full Text<\/a> search box<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>~ Leslie Czechowski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HSLS Health Sciences E-Books page is a subject listing of the many e-books available to our users. One of our newer subject categories is \u201cWriting and Research.\u201d Currently, HSLS provides access to fourteen e-books in these areas. Included are two style guides, the AMA manual of Style and Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2010","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}